From the poshest neighbourhoods to teeming slums, typical Indian kiranas are cramped spaces that can just about fit a king-size bed but are chock-full of sacks of rice, lentils and dried chili peppers. read more

While overwhelmingly optimistic about their outlook for India, the business executives had sought further action on ease of doing business and innovations, Guruprasad Mohapatra, secretary of department for promotion of industry and internal trade, told... read more

The biggest change is that women players will get higher payouts of Monopoly money than men, said its makers Hasbro toy firm - though men can still win if they play their cards right. read more

The US retail giant launched its first site in the South Asian nation of 1.3 billion people in 2013 and is locked in a fierce battle with Walmart, which bought a 77-percent share in local e-commerce behemoth Flipkart for $16 billion last year. read more

Regulatory filings submitted by Flipkart indicate that former co-founder Binny Bansal has sold a tranche of shares for the third time since Walmart’s takeover of the e-commerce company. read more

In other news, several Indian family offices are coming together to form a consortium to make investments on their own, driven by a lack of consistent returns and high management fees in private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) funds. read more

American e-commerce giant Amazon’s investment Kishore Biyani’s group company Future Coupons will add to the intensity of competition in the Indian retail sector, which now has three big groups fighting it out - Amazon and Future, Walmart-Flipkart and... read more

“The Walton family has groomed the next generation as a generation of entrepreneurs,” said Byron Trott, founder of merchant bank BDT Capital Partners, who advises some of the world’s richest families. read more

An outpouring of some 10,000 messages and more than 900 floral arrangements, some from as far away as Asia, came flooding in. read more

Amazon has been acquiring tiny stakes in other Indian brick-and-mortar chains such as Shoppers Stop Ltd. and a grocery chain from the Aditya Birla Group in the past couple of years. read more

The optics of the picture of Donald Trump giving a thumbs-up as his wife, Melania, cradles a baby orphaned in the El Paso, Texas mass shooting struck many on social media as demonstrating a lack of empathy or respect for the gravity of the occasion by... read more

If the post, titled “The inconvenient truth”, is verified to have been written by the alleged shooter Patrick Crusius the shooting will be investigated as a hate crime read more

Six Mexicans were injured in the Texas shooting, including a 10-year-old girl, said Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard on Twitter. read more

West Mifflin police say 20-year-old Grace Brown is facing multiple charges including criminal mischief, open lewdness and public drunkenness. It wasn’t known if she’s retained an attorney. read more

Flipkart’s board recently authorized the PhonePe Pvt Ltd. unit to become a new entity and explore raising $1 billion from outside investors at a valuation of as much as $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. read more